Independent advice
No money, free product or incentives from liquor brands or distributors. Recommendations are made for your bar and your guests, nothing else.
About · Pourfoli
Behind the bar,
every night of it.
Pourfoli is Jon Prosser. Eight years of Twin Cities bars, from a neighborhood restaurant in Minneapolis to opening every bar in a new hotel. Jon is the person you talk to, and the one who shows up to do the work.
8 years
behind busy Twin Cities bars
4 bars
set up on a hotel opening team
20+
bartenders and bar staff trained
150+
guests at the largest events served
Experience
Where the work
comes from.
Menus, training and events, learned over real services in a neighborhood restaurant and a hotel opening.
2020 – present
Pourfoli
Bar consulting and private events
- Bartends private events for businesses and private clients across the Twin Cities.
- Advised DeGidio's Restaurant and Bar on its bar program and cocktail menu.
2020 – 2026
Omni Viking Lakes Hotel, Eagan
Lead bartender and bar manager
- Joined the pre-opening team and set up every bar in the hotel: Kyndred Hearth, Ember & Ice, the Keras lobby bar and banquets.
- Led the bar at Kyndred Hearth, the hotel's signature restaurant from James Beard Award–winning chef Ann Kim.
- Created cocktails and led menu rollouts from recipe development to staff training, within a food and beverage program ranked first in the company for more than five years.
- Ran bar service for banquets and events of 150+ guests.
2018 – 2020
Copper Hen, Minneapolis
Bar manager
- Went from food runner to bartender in six months, and to bar manager three months later.
- Wrote the bar menus, created the drink recipes and trained all bar staff, baristas included.
- Planned and hosted weddings and large-group buyouts.
How Jon works
Advice you can
take to the bar.
Built for service
Specs, costs and batches are written down, so the team can make every drink the same way on a busy night.
Teams that own it
Training happens at your bar, on your menu, so the work keeps going after the engagement ends.
Certified
Trained to serve.
TIPS On-Premise Alcohol Server
Valid through January 2028
ServSafe Food Handler
Valid through April 2027
The Pourfoli app
Building the tools, too.
Jon builds software as well as menus. The Pourfoli app puts the work behind a bar program, the specs, costing, batching and prep he has managed for years, in one place for bar teams.
Work with Jon.
A bar that needs a hand or an evening coming up. Every message goes straight to Jon.